The Politics Of The Poor In Contemporary India

Author : Indrajit Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316674347
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics of the Poor written by Indrajit Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor engage with their elected representatives, political mediators and dominant classes in order to advance their claims. Roy explains the variations by directing attention to the dynamic interaction between the opportunity structures available to the poor and the social relations of power in which they are embedded. He analyses these intersections as 'political spaces' which both enable and constrain popular practices. Through examination of the 'political spaces' available to the poor in four different localities, Roy outlines a new analytic framework to understanding poor people's politics. Based on these observations, the book makes a strong case for an approach to democracy that appreciates people's ambivalences towards democracy. Roy urges researchers of democracy to step beyond either enthusiastic narratives - the inevitability of democracy or apocalyptic accounts of democracy's impending death.

Author : Nandini Gooptu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521443660
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-Century India written by Nandini Gooptu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-05 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force.

Author : John Echeverri-Gent
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520913264
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State and the Poor written by John Echeverri-Gent and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparison of rural development in India and the United States develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a new conceptual framework for analyzing state-society relations beginning from the premise that policy implementation, as the site of tangible exchanges between state and society, provides strategic interaction among self-interested individuals, social groups, and bureaucracies. It demonstrates how this interaction can be harnessed to enhance the effectiveness of public policy. Echeverri-Gent's application of this framework to poverty alleviation programs generates provocative insights about the ways in which institutions and social structure constrain policy-makers. In the process, he illuminates new implications for the concepts of state autonomy and state capacity. The book's original conceptual framework and intriguing findings will interest scholars of South Asia and American politics, social theorists, and policy-makers.

Author : Kohli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521320085
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State and Poverty in India written by Kohli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the role of government in eradicating India's rural poverty raises a whole series of crucial contemporary issues relating to the state, its degree of autonomy in the developing world and the problems of effecting genuine redistributive reform. The particular importance of the book is that it focuses attention on the nature of ruling political parties as an important factor influencing the success or failure of redistributive and welfare politics in a democratic capitalist setting. Dr Kohli compares in detail three state-level Indian governments of the late seventies: Communist-ruled West Bengal, Karnataka under the Congress Party, and Uttar Pradesh under the Janata Party. Comparing these in terms of their success in redistributing agricultural land and creating employment for the rural poor, the author argues cogently that well-organised, left-of-centre parties in government - like that in West Bengal - are the most effective in implementing reform.

Author : Raju J. Das
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004415564
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India written by Raju J. Das and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Das deploys class theory to decipher India’s economic and political situation. It deals with the specificities of India’s capitalism and neoliberalism, and their economic consequences. It critically examines lower-class struggles led by the Left, and the fascistic politics of the Right.

Author : Nandini Gooptu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139159722
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early Twentieth-century India written by Nandini Gooptu and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nandini Gooptu's history of the Indian urban poor represents a tour-de-force. It focuses on themes ranging from the social construction of poverty, religious and caste identities and nationalist and labour politics. In this way, the book contributes to current debates on the nature of subaltern politics and consciousness.

Author : Narayan Lakshman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199088357
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patrons of the Poor written by Narayan Lakshman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has there not been more progress with reducing poverty in India? Patrons of the Poor offers a rich and contemporary account of politics and policymaking in India, as it seeks to provide an answer to this vital question. Despite unprecedented economic growth, the last twenty years have witnessed a growing divergence across Indian states in terms of their poverty alleviation records. In that context, and given that state governments are responsible for a wide range of redistributive policies, this book analyses trends in state politics and policymaking. Based on the analysis, it explains why some Indian states have managed to reduce poverty more effectively than others. Using detailed case studies from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the author examines the policymaking processes and political histories of these states. He argues that patterns of caste dominance combined with the degree of competition in populist policies can significantly explain whether states adopt pro-poor policies or not. Lakshman's analysis combines a deep reading of state-specific political and sociological data with a range of interviews with top political leaders, senior bureaucrats, and academics to corroborate his core argument.

Author : Akhil Gupta
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822351102
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Tape written by Akhil Gupta and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project.

Author : Indrajit Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107117186
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Poor in Contemporary India written by Indrajit Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on diverse sorts of data and fieldwork in India, this book analyses how the poor participate in a democracy.

Author : Raju J Das
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000412970
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of New India written by Raju J Das and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical of the economic and political power relations in contemporary India, this book is written from the vantagepoint of the working masses whose basic economic and democratic rights remain unmet. Written for a broader audience beyond the academic community, the essays that make up the book provide short critical commentaries on different aspects of Indian society undergoing significant changes in recent times. The essays are conceptually driven and include empirical details, but they generally avoid the usual perils of academicism, by expressing complicated ideas in a relatively simple language and by drawing out their practical implications. This book is co-published with Aakar Books, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.